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March 2026 Patch Tuesday Analysis

By Tyler Reguly on Tue, 03/10/2026
Today’s Patch Tuesday Alert addresses Microsoft’s March 2026 Security Updates. The FIRE team is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expect to ship that coverage as soon as it is completed.
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February 2026 Patch Tuesday Analysis

By Tyler Reguly on Tue, 02/10/2026
Today’s Patch Tuesday Alert addresses Microsoft’s February 2026 Security Updates. The FIRE team is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expect to ship that coverage as soon as it is completed.
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Data Classification: Enabling Compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOX, & More

Wed, 02/04/2026
Learn how Fortra's Data Classification Suite can facilitate compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOX, and other prominent data privacy regulations.
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January 2026 Patch Tuesday Analysis

By Tyler Reguly on Tue, 01/13/2026
Today’s Patch Tuesday Alert addresses Microsoft’s January 2026 Security Updates. The FIRE team is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expect to ship that coverage as soon as it is completed.
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November 2025 Patch Tuesday Analysis

By Tyler Reguly on Tue, 11/11/2025
Today’s Patch Tuesday Alert addresses Microsoft’s November 2025 Security Updates. We are actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expect to ship that coverage as soon as it is completed.
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October 2025 Patch Tuesday Analysis

By Tyler Reguly on Tue, 10/14/2025
Today’s Patch Tuesday Alert addresses Microsoft’s October 2025 Security Updates. We are actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expect to ship that coverage as soon as it is completed.
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September 2025 Patch Tuesday Analysis

By Tyler Reguly on Tue, 09/09/2025
Today’s Patch Tuesday Alert addresses Microsoft’s September 2025 Security Updates. We are actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expect to ship that coverage as soon as it is completed.
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How to Automate Vulnerability Management: Benefits, Best Practices, and FAQs

Mon, 09/08/2025
What Is Vulnerability Management Automation? At its core, vulnerability management (VM) is the continuous process of scanning an organization’s digital environment for exploitable weaknesses that could serve as entry points for cyberattacks, reporting and evaluating the findings, and remediating systems to remove detected weaknesses. For vulnerability...
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Fortra Patch Priority Index for August 2025

By Lane Thames on Wed, 09/03/2025
Fortra's August 2025 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities for Microsoft and Google.First on the list are patches for Chromium and Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) that resolve use-after-free and inappropriate implementation vulnerabilities.Next on the list are patches for Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio. These patches resolve 15 issues, including...
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Machines Catch Yesterday’s Scams, Humans Stop Tomorrow’s

By Kirsten Doyle on Tue, 09/02/2025
Email is still the front door for attackers. And the door is wide open. Scammers now use the same tools defenders do. A bad actor with access to a large language model can generate flawless English, craft convincing requests, and sound exactly like a colleague or supplier. The result: emails that slip past traditional filters with ease. “By the time blocking rules and security have been built up...
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Waiting to Patch? Attackers Won’t Wait to Exploit.

By Cybersecurity Experts at Fortra on Wed, 08/20/2025
In the time it takes for some companies to determine which vulnerabilities to patch, attackers will have already launched their malicious strike.In cybersecurity, we see this all the time. A major company was breached through a vulnerability that had a patch available for over 6 months. The patch wasn’t applied due to internal process delays, competing priorities, and fear of system downtime....
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August 2025 Patch Tuesday Analysis

By Tyler Reguly on Tue, 08/12/2025
Today’s Patch Tuesday Alert addresses Microsoft’s August 2025 Security Updates. We are actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expect to ship ASPL-1169 as soon as coverage is completed.
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Fortra Patch Priority Index for July 2025

By Lane Thames on Wed, 08/06/2025
Fortra's July 2025 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities for Microsoft and Google.Up first on the list are patches for Chromium and Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) that resolve type confusion, information disclosure, and remote code execution vulnerabilities.Next on the list are patches for Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams. These patches resolve...
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How Do You Determine What Vulnerabilities to Fix First?

By David Henderson on Tue, 07/29/2025
Security teams don’t suffer from a lack of data. They suffer from a lack of clarity. Every scan, every alert, every dashboard shouts for attention. The result? A wall of red. Thousands of vulnerabilities. Hundreds marked critical. Dozens hitting the same system. Teams are left staring at the mess, asking the only question that matters: Which one do we fix first? That question doesn’t get enough...
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Stop Cyber Threats Before They Cost You: Protecting Financial Services with Fortra

By Katrina Thompson on Tue, 07/22/2025
Two in three financial institutions faced cyberattacks in 2024, and that trend shows little sign of letting up. Because of their valuable data – hooked conveniently to direct financial information – FinServ organizations are perennial targets for hungry attackers. But this isn’t news to anybody. Financial institutions understand the threats, and for the most part, they are some of the most...
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AiLock ransomware: What you need to know

By Graham Cluley on Wed, 07/09/2025
What is AiLock?AiLock is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation that first came to light in March 2025. Security researchers at Zscaler noted that they had identified a cybercriminal group extorting ransoms from organisations through threats.I'm guessing the threat was the usual story of "We've stolen your data and encrypted the files on your systems - pay up or we'll dump the information on...
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July 2025 Patch Tuesday Analysis

By Tyler Reguly on Tue, 07/08/2025
Today’s Patch Tuesday Alert addresses Microsoft’s July 2025 Security Updates. We are actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expect to ship ASPL-1164 as soon as coverage is completed.
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Staying Ahead of Cloud Threats: Monitoring, Incident Response, and Compliance

By Cybersecurity Experts at Fortra on Mon, 07/07/2025
The cloud threat landscape in 2025 is marked by speed, scale, and staggering complexity. This year's Top Threats to Cloud Computing Deep Dive 2025 from the CSA reads like a breach compendium: Toyota's misconfigured GitHub repos, the Snowflake supply chain incident, and a ransomware attack linked to CrowdStrike Falcon deployments all illustrate the evolving attack surface and the tremendous...
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Fortra Patch Priority Index for June 2025

By Lane Thames on Thu, 07/03/2025
Fortra’s June 2025 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities for Microsoft.Up first on the list are patches for Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) that resolves 2 issues, including out of bounds read/write and use after free vulnerabilities.Next on the list are patches for Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. These patches resolve 14 remote code execution...
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